Tag: Georgia Bulldogs

Maybe one or both of Sony Michel and Nick Chubb could have been a bigger individual star had they played on different teams. Perhaps if fate took one to another program, they would have made the trip to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. Then again, they might have traded Los Angeles and Atlanta…

In February 2015, Macon County High School senior Roquan Smith was the nation's leading sports headline -- though it wasn't a position the 4-star football prospect sought. Verbally committed to UCLA, Smith was set to add his name to the growing legacy of Bruins linebackers; a natural heir apparent to Anthony Barr, Eric Kendrick and…

LOS ANGELES -- A single play does not shape a 12-win college football regular season on its own. Georgia wide receiver Terry Godwin is the first to stress that point. "It's just another play in a game," Godwin said of the catch. Now, if you know anything about the No. 3 Bulldogs' run to the Rose…

Ahhh yes, the Sun Bowl! Believe it or not, the Sun Bowl ranks among the oldest postseason games, dating back to 1935 -- the same year as the Sugar and Orange Bowl. Like those classic games, it began as a Jan. 1 bowl. Now it's either played the day of New Year's Eve or a…

The 2018 Heisman Trophy winner could emerge from relative obscurity. Such was the case for recent winners Johnny Manziel and Jameis Winston, a pair of redshirt freshmen not even projected to start a year out from their inclusion in college football's most exclusive club. Lamar Jackson was a known commodity after the 2015 season, but…

Who's In? It's the existential question for college football in this era of a Playoff, one the marketing gurus in Stamford have perpetuated from the first game of the 2014 season. The omnipresent question that lingers over the college football season is answered the first Sunday of December. So...who's in the College Football Playoff for…

The latter portion of 2017 Championship Weekend functions as a de facto College Football Playoff quarterfinal -- sort of. Pending the results of Saturday's conference championship games, a team sitting at home -- namely Alabama -- could jump into a national semifinal. It's a weird system we have, as Penn State learned a season ago…

No matter when your college football fandom began in the last 35 years, it coincided with an era of Miami Hurricanes greatness -- well, unless you became a fan in the past 12 years. From the 1983 season -- when Howard Schnellenberger led a previously moribund Miami program to a national championship -- and for…

Like Hank Scorpio on a video chat with the UN, this college football Saturday stands before the Playoff in possession of the Doomsday Device. Last weekend featured an incredible seven matchups between Top 25 teams. The Saturday Six-Pack is once again stocked entirely with showdowns between ranked opponents. Last time, such a slate all but…

November promises plenty of chaos and shake-ups to the College Football Playoff landscape. Nevertheless, the scope of the national championship race is beginning to narrow. Notre Dame's blowout of USC Saturday night in South Bend functioned as the first real elimination game of the College Football Playoff race. The Fighting Irish certainly are not in…

Predicting or projecting the College Football Playoff final four with half the season played is a fool’s errand. And there are plenty of fools – apologies, fellow scribes – willing to run that errand. The carnage from this weekend is evidence enough that college football is our favorite sweetheart because she is so damn unpredictable.…

Someone wake up Billie Joe Armstrong, the final September slate of the college football season is upon us. With a full month nearly in the books, I'm reminded of a comment the late, great Beano Cook made on the original ESPN College Football Podcast: "We wait [for college football season], then it flies by. It's…

Last week was the first of the 2017 college football season to produce one of those classic weekends; the kind of weekend the ardent followers of the sport know is inevitable, yet remain surprised when on finally arrives. A slate that underwhelms on paper delivers with some of the most intense, exciting action of the…

Week 1 of the 2017 college football season spread action over five consecutive days, featured the greatest upset in the game's history; the second-biggest comeback ever; and a Monday night finale that came down to a double-overtime two-point conversion attempt. How, exactly, can Week 2 meet that high standard? Well, the answer is rather easily.…

ESPN released its Week 1 broadcast schedule on this, the 100-day mark until the first full weekend of college football. Thursday's release does not cover the network's entire Week 1 plan -- ESPN 2, ESPNU and SEC Network games remain TBD -- but the full slate of contests on the main ESPN and ABC are…